Environmental Literacy Council

From SourceWatch

According to their website the The Environmental Literacy Council is "dedicated to helping citizens, especially young people, participate wisely in this arena. An independent, non-profit organization, the Council gives teachers the tools to help students develop environmental literacy: a fundamental understanding of the systems of the world, both living and non-living, along with the analytical skills needed to weigh scientific evidence and policy choices".

1 Funding
2 Personnel
3 Contact information
4 External links

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Funding

According to Media Transparency, the ELC have receined funding from the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Earhart Foundation, Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation and the John M. Olin Foundation. [1]

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Personnel

Council Members

The current (accessed January 2004) members are:

Robert L. Sproull, Council Chair, is Emeritus President and Professor of Physics, University of Rochester;
Roger A. Sedjo, President of the Council, is Senior Fellow and Director of the Forest Economics and Policy Program, Resources for the Future, in Washington, D.C.
Kathleen Berry is Science Chairperson, Canon-McMillan High School, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
Daniel B. Botkin is president, Center for the Study of the Environment, and the author of numerous books, including Passages of Discovery: the American Rivers Guide to the Missouri River of Lewis and Clark and Dischordant Harmonies.
John F. Disinger is Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, and past president of the North American Association for Environmental Education.
Nicholas N. Eberstadt is Visiting Fellow, Center for Population Studies, Harvard University, and holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute.
Michael H. Glantz is Senior Scientist, Environmental and Societal Impacts Group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
George M. Gray is Director, Program on Food Safety and Agriculture, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, and Lecturer on Risk Analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Thomas G. Moore is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and former member of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors.
John Opie is a lecturer at the University of Chicago and was the founding editor of the international quarterly Environmental Review.
Stanford S. Penner is Professor (Emeritus) of Engineering Physics, Director (Emeritus) of the Center for Energy and Combustion Research at the University of California, San Diego, and Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Energy.
F. James Rutherford is Chief Education Officer at the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former Director of Project 2061.
Frederick Seitz is past President of the National Academy of Sciences, past President of the American Physical Society, and President Emeritus, Rockefeller University.
Daniel S. Simberloff is the Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science, University of Tennessee, and recently Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University.
M. Jane Teta is Principal Epidemiologist, Exponent Health Group, Connecticut and Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts. Dr. Teta has served on the scientific advisory boards of the ATSDR, the EPA, and the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis.
Alvin W. Trivelpiece is Emeritus Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Dr. Trivelpiece was formerly Executive Officer, Association for the Advancement of Science, and publisher of Science, the Association’s journal.
Ann K. Vidaver is Chief Scientist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Professor and Head of the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Director of the Center for Biotechnology.
Kathleen B. deBettencourt is Executive Director of the Council.